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Crichton's Prey

spent the weekend pouring over a paperback novel. God I hope dad doesnt hear that, he has allways been concerned i am more inclined towards reading garbage than anything else. All said and done I however feel Micheal Crichton novels have a powerful way of updating the laymen of latest scintific revolutions and the implications it might have, often in an intimidating way. Often have i wondered if he is not endangering teh growth of research in the fields he writes on by giving them an ominous touch, but one thing i swear is that at the end of the day if u need a real thriller u need to look upto crichton.

The amount of research he does on each of hte subjects he writes makes u wonder if he is a reasearch student or a science fiction author. The bibliography for each of his novels often runs to 3 or 4 pages!!! I really do admire the perseverence shown by an author to bring out quality work agains all odds. I expected Crichton to be a young person and hte feeling was further rooted by hte pictures that i saw at the end of each of his books. Yesterday i took the effort to read through the author description to note with wonder that he is a person of 56 years!! Well some may consider that a young age though.

Prey, the novel i read was about nano particles, distributed intelligence, networking and the related stuff. I wondered if a supposedly techie nerd as me could not compleletly comprehend all the stuff in there, what would a layman make of hte whole thing. But somehow it seemed to be just clicking.

posted by Mahesh Vijayamohanan @ 12:32 PM